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Question #1:

Eight O'Clock By A.E. Housman question... !?

This is the poem :

He stood, and heard the steeple
Sprinkle the quarters on the morning town.
One, two, three, four, to market-place and people
It tossed them down.

Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour,
He stood and counted them and cursed his luck;
And then the clock collected in the tower
Its strength, and struck.

I have a question in my english class and it goes, How has Housman used sound devices effectively to support his theme and tone ?

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Question #2:

What is the theme of the poem, "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now," by A.E. Housman?

Thanks

Question #3:

A.E. Housman Poetry Analysis help please?

this is a poem by a.e. housman. i'm not sure if there is a deeper meaning or if it's just flat out. i noticed the contrast between the peacefulness in nature versus the intense struggles of the man. i'm not sure how to extract a meaning from that... please help and give me some tips. thank you!

Spring Morning

Star and coronal and bell
April underfoot renews,
And the hope of man as well
Flowers among the morning dews.

Now the old come out to look,
Winter past and winter's pains
How the sky in the pool and brook
Glitters on the grassy plains.

Easily the gentle air
Wafts the turning season on;
Things to comfort them are there
Though 'tis true the best are gone.

Now the scorned unlucky lad
Rousing from his pillow gnawn
Mans his heart and deep and glad
Drinks the valiant air of dawn.

Half the night he longed to die,
Now are sown on the hill and plain
Pleasures worth his while to try
Ere he longs to die again.

Blue the sky from east to west
Arches, and the world is wide,
Though the girl he loves the best
Rouses from another's side.

Question #4:

a.e. housman poetry analysis help.?

can someone help me interpret this poem by a.e. housman? is the meaning that blunt or is there something deeper?

here's the poem:

Shake Hands

Shake hands, we shall never be friends, all's over;
I only vex you the more I try.
All's wrong that ever I've done or said,
And nought to help it in this dull head:
Shake hands, here's luck, good-bye.

But if you come to a road where danger
Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share,
Be good to the lad that loves you true
And the soul that was born to die for you,
And whistle and I'll be there.

Question #5:

Suggestions on my thesis statement?

I wrote the thesis below, but I cannot think of a way to finish it. I'm trying to say that losses remain forever like something on the highway. However, for the successes, I have that they are stiller tar because they are no longer cared about or important. What can I put that has relation to the road, but in an opposite way from the successes?

Thesis: In John Updike’s Ex-Basketball Player and A.E. Housman’s To an Athlete Dying Young, life is portrayed as merely a winding road where successes remain as nothing more than stiller tar and losses as ________.

Thanks!

Question #6:

Eight o'clock" by A.E. housman? Identify at least three different sound devices that housman uses?

He stood, and heard the steeple

Sprinkle the quarters on the morning town.

One, two, three, four, to market-place and people

It tossed them down.

Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour,

He stood and counted them and cursed his luck;

And then the clock collected in the tower

Its strength, and struck.

"Thanks"

Question #7:

what is the denotative meaning of the poem "With rue my heart is laden " by a.e. Housman?

Question #8:

Anyone know the name of a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd? or even if there is a name for such a rhyme scheme?

The poem i'm looking at is "With Rue My Heart Is Laden" by A. E. Housman, and i couldnt find the name of the rhyme scheme. It has an abab cdcd rhyme scheme.

With Rue My Heart Is Laden By A.E. Housman

With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And man a lightfood lad.

By brooks too broad for leaping
The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fase.

Question #9:

What type of poem is "Infant Innocence" by A.E Housam?

Infant Innocence
A.E. Housman

The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild;
He has devoured the infant child.
The infant child is not aware
It has been eaten by the bear.

i think its a sonnet? plz helpp thnxxx

Question #10:

angular speed of earth??? help?

(a) Find the angular speed of the Earth’s rotation on its
axis. As the Earth turns toward the east, we see the sky
turning toward the west at this same rate.
(b) The rainy Pleiads wester
And seek beyond the sea
The head that I shall dream of
That shall not dream of me.
A. E. Housman (© Robert E. Symons)
Cambridge, England, is at longitude 0°, and Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, is at longitude 107° west. How much
time elapses after the Pleiades set in Cambridge until
these stars fall below the western horizon in Saskatoon?

Question #11:

What is the meaning of the poem by A. E. Housman-Terence this is stupid stuff?

10 point's

Question #12:

What is the meaning of the poem by A. E. Housman-Poem Loveliest of trees?

Question #13:

Where can I find literary criticism, and other solid info on A. E. Housman?

I need to get some work cited and literary reviews from people who aren't high schoolers. Good solid info.
I am speccifically looking for info on his book THE LAST POEMS

Question #14:

Where can i find decent information on A.E. Housman's "To An Athlete Dying Young"?

Okay I am in a group doing a presentation on this poem by A.E. Housman. One of the things we need to find out is the origin or background of the poem. Are there any good sites that I can find this information from? I typed in the author, the poem, and origin to find out but all I got was sites with the poem and no information on it. Any help appreciated. Thank you! :)
Also any information on the author in general would be nice. Thanks again!

Question #15:

"eight o'clock" by a.e. housman? can u provide me with a paraphrase to this poem as soon as possible please?

Question #16:

Can anyone find poems by... and about...?

Can anyone find poems by Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, A.E. Housman, Karl Shapiro, John Crowe Ransom, or Larry Woiwode on accepting death?

Question #17:

To an Athlete Dying Young by A.E. Housman Questions?

D. Why will the townspeople "flock to gaze the strengthless dead"?

What value or attraction could there possibly be for them to pay so much attention to his corpse?

E. What is the significance of the final two lines?

Why is his laurel "unwithered" on his curls,/The garland briefer than a girl's"?

Why "briefer than a girl's"?

Is that a sexual image, a reference to virginity, a reference to virility, a reference to innocence? Are there any other options? Explain.
F. What point is this piece making about fame?

About how one gets it, how long one can expect it to last, how it is taken away?

What other celebrities, recent or not, could this poem be applied to (e.g. Kurt Cobain, Princess Di, Jimi Hendrix, etc.)?

What relation does this piece have to the old saying "It is better to burn out than to fade away"? Explain.
I've read the poem I'm just stuck on these now

D. Why will the townspeople "flock to gaze the strengthless dead"?

What value or attraction could there possibly be for them to pay so much attention to his corpse?

E. What is the significance of the final two lines?

Is that a sexual image, a reference to virginity, a reference to virility, a reference to innocence?

Are there any other options? explain

Question #18:

“Here Dead Lie We Because We Did Not Choose", by A.E. Housman meaning?

Here dead lie we because we did not choose

To live and shame the land from which we sprung.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose;

But young men think it is, and we were young.

I think it means that life can mean different things to different people and that life doesn't mean happiness and victory at all times...It leaves me dumbfounded by struck with emotion....this poem is profound...i just need someone to explain the significance of it.

Question #19:

How did A.E. Housman die?

Question #20:

what are the literary devices used in this poem?

When I Was One-and-Twenty
(A Shropshire Lad XIII)
A. E. Housman

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
“Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
5 Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.”
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.

When I was one-and-twenty
10 I heard him say again,
“The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
‘Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.”
And I am two-and-twenty
And oh, ‘tis true, ‘tis true.

(metaphor, simile, personification, alliteration, etc.)

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